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Mental health and psychosocial support services in primary health care in Nepal: perceived facilitating factors, barriers and strategies for improvement

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-2476-x

Published Online: 2020-02-13

Published Print: 2020-12

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Authors

Upadhaya, Nawaraj

Regmi, Upasana

Gurung, Dristy

Luitel, Nagendra P.

Petersen, Inge

Jordans, Mark J. D.

Komproe, Ivan H.
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

European Union (305968)
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Article History

Received: 4 May 2019

Accepted: 31 January 2020

First Online: 13 February 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval was received from the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) with registration number 162/2015. Research assistants (RAs) approached the primary health care workers involved in mental health service delivery under PRIME project. RAs explained the overall theme of the study and provided an information sheet for the participant to read and make an informed decision (informed consent) to participate in the study. A written informed consent was obtained from the participants. The interviews were conducted in a place where the respondents felt most comfortable and respondents were free to end the interview at any time. Before data analysis, all personal identifiers were removed.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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